Edward Seaga
Population pressure has been a persistent problem since emancipation. It is the insidious base of Jamaica's greatest obstacle — unemployment.
On August 1, 1838, Emancipation Day, 310,000 enslaved men, women (and children) were freed. This mass introduction into the labour force precipitated a problem which was new and hitherto unknown to the Jamaican economy: a huge surplus of unemployed labour. Suddenly, substantial openings or opportunities were needed for an excessive number of workers without skills — in effect, a problem akin to overpopulation, or mass unemployment.
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Population pressure has been a persistent problem since emancipation. It is the insidious base of Jamaica's greatest obstacle — unemployment.
On August 1, 1838, Emancipation Day, 310,000 enslaved men, women (and children) were freed. This mass introduction into the labour force precipitated a problem which was new and hitherto unknown to the Jamaican economy: a huge surplus of unemployed labour. Suddenly, substantial openings or opportunities were needed for an excessive number of workers without skills — in effect, a problem akin to overpopulation, or mass unemployment.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...6?profile=1096
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